Essays about: "Middle East and North Africa"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 45 essays containing the words Middle East and North Africa.

  1. 11. EU Development Cooperation in MENA : Mainstreaming Gender In Media Development. Case study: Tunisia

    University essay from

    Author : Nabila Zayati; [2022]
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    Abstract : Following the increasing recognition of the media’s considerable potential to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, different media development interventions have been launched to fuel development cooperation efforts structured around a North-South binary. However, the dynamic interplay of forces behind these efforts puts the effectiveness and sustainability of their results into question. READ MORE

  3. 12. Tunisia’s Gender Digital Divide: A Case Study of Tunisia’s Gender Gap in Internet Usage and the Role of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Ellen Löfgren; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender digital divide; MENA; ICTs; gender equality; digital transformation; internet; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Today, the digital transformation provides new avenues for women’s empowerment. Information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the internet, can contribute to greater gender equality by enabling everyone access to the same online resources and opportunities. READ MORE

  4. 13. Void of Sea, Void of Law? : Examining the European Union's treatment of migrants in the Mediterranean: a legal and normative analysis

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Aidan McGirr; [2022]
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    Abstract : Approximately eight people have died every single day since January 1, 2014 attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Put another way, more than 23,000 migrants have met their end in the Mediterranean while attempting to enter the European Union. Yet, it has not always been this way. READ MORE

  5. 14. Left without protection : A study on how honour-related violence and oppression is being problematised in Swedish public policy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

    Author : Margrét Gudmundsdottir; [2022]
    Keywords : Honour; honour-violence; oppression; policy documents; problem representation; intersectionality; women; Middle East and North Africa; isolation; subordination.;

    Abstract : In June 2022, a new law will be implemented in the Swedish legal system, making honour- violence a certain crime. Before the new law has been implemented, investigations have been made by government officials trying to present how honour-related violence and oppression is a problem in the Swedish society. READ MORE

  6. 15. Antisemitism as a political weapon : A discourse analysis of claims of antisemitism in relation to Palestine/Israel

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : David Dahlström; [2022]
    Keywords : Antisemitism – Anti-Zionism – Palestine – Israel – Palestine Israel – Sweden – Malmö – Discourse – Laclau Mouffe – Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : This study was conducted in order to interpret claims of antisemitism in Malmö, Sweden, depicted as an effect of political events in Palestine/Israel. It is argued that contemporary antisemitism is a new phenomenon, where hostility towards Jewish people is argued to be motivated by hostility towards Israel by perpetrators identified as ”Muslims” and/or people with roots in the Middle East and North Africa. READ MORE